There's been a pretty steady stream of new people these days, and I'm kinda curious as to where you came from, and how you got to TRF.

I joined June of 2002. I was into game development at the time. I was moding the original Jedi Knight, had just discovered a little game called Stick Soldiers, and IIRC another game called Soldat. I had a crazy idea about making a cross between Soldat and Jedi Knight -- a side-scrolling jedi knight adventure. I went on my merry way looking to see if perhaps such a game existed.

An MSN search landed me, by some hook or crook, on TRF. At that time TRF had a sexay grey and silver style with the Millennium Falcon in the background, jumping to hyperspace. I think it was the fixed background that first entranced me, because I was also getting into web development at the time, and I didn't know how the heck someone could make the background sit still and the text scroll over it.

I spent some time lurking, and while doing so I read Omnae's thread with Kahn. I forget what it was called, but it hooked me on the concept of collaborative fiction. I joined up intent on recruiting the members of TRF to write the story to my game, while doing a little writing of my own. I think some people took me a little more seriously than they should have (Gash, I be looking at you) and offered up a lot for the story. Four years later, and I'm still here.

Oh, it’s all so blurry. I can’t remember it like it was yesterday. The drugs, the drugs took me. Here we go…

I was in to Dungeons and Dragons, and a plethora of various tabletop RPG’s. Palladium, WEG, TSR, you name it and I played it. Even such less known names as Call of Cthulu (great game) came to fill my shelves. My obsession moved online with the purchase of my first, very own computer. I was fourteen and the very first thing I found was TSROnline. I was hooked. By sixteen I was a moderator on the Message Boards and the bug had gone deep, like cancer. I was addicted. I needed more.

TSROnline became Wizards Online, the online division of Wizards Of The Coast (the very same thugs who bought out Dungeons and Dragons, among others) and, spurned, I headed for the hills. Well, sort of… You know how hard it is to give up a drug.

And then I found free-form forum based Role Playing. I cannot honestly recall the first few places I visited. Somehow I found TRF. It was early 2002, I was younger. Next, and most influential in my development under the banner, Maim found me. Maybe I found him… Either way, everyone needs a mentor (even a mental mentor) and I loved the guy.

It was all about the expansion of tabletop gaming for me, a community within which I could craft my own stories and characters without the confines of dice and rules, yet structured enough to be collaborative and combative between members. And it had everything I wanted.

It wasn’t corporate. It was Star Wars.

Everything I had at TSRO could be found here (save for the gifts and rewards sponsored by a mega machine). Everything and more.

I’m still here.

I originally played at the New Imperial Federation; an affiliate of this site. The NIF is good site, but it is more or less concentrated on the military and technical aspects of Star Wars. I recently started getting into more character development, which meant more freedom in writing, which the NIF does not offer. Hence, I browsed the affiliates of that site and ended up here.

About a month and a half ago I was sitting at my computer in merry old England trying to find cool pictures on google. After typing in galaxy I randomly saw the TRF galaxy map and so followed the link. It looked good, and it is good.

=)

TRF rocks. I think I just did a EZBoard search for "Star Wars" (that was their example) and found TRF. That was, oh, 3 years ago? TRF was part of my discovery of forum based role-playing, which I used to do a whole lot and now I just do a little. It tought be how to role play and write =), mostly because I read things by Omnae and Gash, etc. and wanted to be like them.

But thanks for the moving conférence, Beff. I am moved.

One day, I came up with the idea that it might be cool to write about a Jedi character if I couldn't play one in a video game [my parents refused to get me one]. So I googled and the first one I found was TRF.

I was 14, in eighth grade, and new to roleplaying. And I chose a hell of a place to learn. Needless to say, I sucked. And I knew it. However, I was also somewhat ashamed and so I studied the posts of others in the Battlegrounds.

Eventually I got better and between my second and third year here, Kenshin got knighted in full ceremony. Well...close enough anyway. It was in a cave, in the middle of the forest, and only Master Cole Donovan was there. By then the Order was pretty inactive.

So I survived TRF and eventually jumped to a number of other boards. But for some reason I always lurked about here. Maybe because TRF was a first for me. Maybe it's the awesome stories. Or maybe TRF just manages somehow to outlast all the other boards.

*shrugs*

I'm 18 now, so that makes four-ish years here.

I don't recall when I actually came over here from TGC, but it was from there that I came. I owe it to Cole Donovin for bringing me here. Of course I also should apologize to him because almost as soon as he did I turned Kamon into a Rogue Jedi instead of your basic Jedi.

I sucked when I came and if you ask me I still suck now. Having survived the loss of two of Kamon's masters, the losses in fleet combat, the destruction of TTR at the hands of BDE, Kamon's imprisonment, and now his return, you might say I was addicted to this place. Though, right now, I play Killian more than I play Kamon.

Bad link to buttshex

I was invited by a friend.

Found this place using EzBoards search engine (if I remember right) after another SW board I had only recently started RPing at went belly up. All because I needed an outlit for RP that SWG didn't really give me (I really suck at real time RP).